Chapter 1122: The Power of the River

Hearing this, Chen Zhaoming's body couldn't help but shake, and Dou Shi hurriedly held on.

Zhe Ke took a big step forward, his face was full of anger, and his hand pressed the hilt of the knife: "Old killer, what is Hu Qin?!" ”

"Bo Yao, come back!"

In the past few days, Zhe Keda's admiration for Chen Zhaoming has increased greatly.

The more people who study science and engineering in depth, the more admiration for Chen Zhaoming increases.

Chen Zhaoming greeted, but he didn't dare to disobey, and finally retreated.

Chen Zhaoming shook his head: "Old man, I know...... Will die, but ...... Do we have a better option? ”

"What we can do now is to minimize the loss, which requires your full cooperation, the experience and wisdom of your old man, and time is running out."

Lao Guo shook his hands, looked at the map again, and finally sighed: "Under the embankment here, it is the old road of the Guzi River, and we have followed the ancestral teachings to take soil from the old road to make the old road deeper and deeper." ”

"On both sides of the old road, there are also embankments, which have been made ...... this system for generations."

"When I was a child, I didn't know what was going on, and I once asked my ancestors, why don't you take everyone to take the soil from other places, it's so troublesome?"

The ancestor said...... Maybe one day, the embankment will break from here, and the generations will be a little troublesome and hard, and they will always leave a little more hope and protection for future generations......"

After speaking, he knelt down again, kowtowed to the Yellow River again and again, and wept bitterly: "The descendants of the Guo family are not filial, and the embankment made by the ancestors and guarded for generations must be picked up by the unfilial descendants today...... The sins of the descendants are unforgivable, and we only hope that the ancestors will have a spirit, bless the descendants of Helong Embankment, and bless the people downstream...... Woowoowoo......"

After praying, the old man leaned over the embankment and whimpered.

Chen Zhaoming suddenly remembered an allusion and couldn't help but be surprised: "Old man...... You, are you a descendant of Guo Chang?! ”

In the Han Dynasty, the river broke the gourd mouth, Ji Di inspected the land of Liang Chu, saw that the people were drifting, father and son cannibalism, and wrote to Emperor Wu, asking the government for relief and river control.

Emperor Wu of Liang sent his most famous water control expert, Zheng Shi, to assist in the control of the water, but without success.

Later, Emperor Wu listened to Tian Wei's suggestion and gave up governing the river for 20 years, and finally "Shandong is not a few years old, people or cannibalism, two or three thousand miles." ”

In the second year of Yuanfeng, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty finally made up his mind to govern the Yellow River again, and ordered Ji Ren, a descendant of Ji Di, and Guo Chang, an expert in river control, to lead the army and civilians to plug the gap.

At that time, the break was already "a hundred steps wide and five feet deep".

In order to scrape together enough materials, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty ordered all the bamboos in the royal garden Qi Garden to be cut down to support the river workers.

Sima Qian had personally experienced the river control project, and it was precisely because he saw the situation at that time with his own eyes that he made up his mind to write the history of river control in the Han Dynasty into his famous work through the ages, "Historical Records".

In "Historical Records: The Book of River Canals", Sima Qian deliberately wrote: "Even the water is harmful! Yu Cong paid the Xuanfang, sad the poem of "Gourd", and wrote "River Canal Book". ”

Old Guo Tou stood up: "No need to say more...... Bachelor, there are only a few hours left, even if the villain is willing, how can he make a decision? ”

Chen Zhaoming finally breathed a sigh of relief: "Old man, you just need to indicate where to dig the embankment, and leave the rest to us!" ”

Lao Guo gritted his teeth: "Then the military masters come with me!" ”

Soon, a line was drawn by Lao Guo Tou on the embankment: "If you want to discharge two feet of floodwater, you need to open the mouth like half of the Han, open fifty steps wide, and more than two feet deep." ”

Chen Zhaoming flipped out a pen and paper: "It's not necessary, as long as you blow up the ten-step gap, the water will naturally expand the breach to the range we need, but this time is ...... Old man, how much time does it take to rush from a ten-step gap to a fifty-step wide? ”

Lao Guo Tou said: "It only takes two or three hours, and then the opening expands, the water slows down, and the speed will drop down." ”

Chen Zhaoming calculated on the paper, and finally stood up: "The science and engineering team, cooperate with Guo Jiaotou to calculate the blasting point and the amount of explosives, and arrange blasting based on the current water level of one foot and eight inches, and blow up a big ditch first." Explosives are then planted at the bottom of the ditch, and the last blasting is carried out when the flood is about to overflow the ditch. Let's go! ”

After speaking, he grabbed Lao Guotou's hand: "Old man, now we need to organize the people, transport materials, and open up a flood ditch." ”

Dou Shi had just gone to call someone to inform the residents along the river to evacuate and come back, and when he heard the words, he said, "I'll go!" ”

Chen Zhaoming pointed to the embankment: "Is there still such a boat?" ”

Old Guo Tou shook his head: "No." ”

Chen Zhaoming hurriedly said: "None of them?" ”

Lao Guo Tou suddenly remembered something: "There is also a galleon upstream, it is said that the young master specially allocated it to Zhang to participate in politics, the boat is extremely fast, not afraid of big water, and only when he participates in politics does he dare to come from the Yellow River at this time." ”

Chen Zhaoming clasped his hands: "Kuizhou type!" That's great! The canvas on the top can be used, too! ”

Lao Guo Tou was so scared: "That's a big ship ...... participating in politics"

Chen Zhaoming didn't care at all: "If you are in a hurry, you will use all the imperial boats!" What's more, the ship was ours! ”

Lao Guo Tou said: "Then I'll go and adjust!" ”

Chen Zhaoming untied an embroidery bag from his waist that made people extremely uncomfortable: "The old man doesn't have to go, Jun Wan, take this to the shipowner to see, he must know!" ”

Wang Jun Wanfei got on the horse, and Chen Zhaoming shouted: "There are still a few hours, let them load the earth and stones and drive over!" ”

Wang Junwan ran over: "Mountain chief, Guo Jiaotou said that it can be exploded!" ”

Chen Zhaoming pulled up Lao Guo's head: "Let's go, avoid it first." ”

Several people ran to a few hundred meters away from the blasting point and stood still, and Lao Guo Tou heard "Boom!" "Boom!" There were several loud bangs, and several fires flashed from the embankment.

Immediately after the sound of the metal whistle, the third artillery squad and the men of the polytechnic team rushed up with torches and pushed the loose earth down to both sides of the embankment.

Soon the gong sounded again, and the torches scattered again, and after a while, there was another "boom!" "Boom!" A few thunders that made the embankment tremble beneath their feet.

This is destined to be a tense night, when the sky is light, Guo Long came over: "Mountain chief, the ditch is opened!" ”

Lao Guo was frightened all night, and when he heard the words, he ran forward with a roll, and saw a brand-new ditch, like a huge knife mark, appeared on the embankment!

Lao Guo Tou finally changed his opinion of Chen Zhaoming: "Sir...... Sir, isn't it the reincarnation of Yinglong? ”

Chen Zhaoming shook his head and looked at the huge ship coming upstream: "Our ship has arrived." ”

The ship was already full of stones, and the boss of the boat leaned against the embankment and dropped anchor: "Uncle! The boat got it for you, in addition to the soil and stones, I also brought 300 bags of cement, and the politicians said that you are in a tight situation here, so you will use it first! ”

Chen Zhaoming couldn't help but be overjoyed: "Hurry up and unload the goods, the canvas is removed as a cloth to wrap the earth and stones, and explosives are placed on the boat, and the ship will be blown up to seal the gap when the time comes!" ”

Chong Pu ran over with a few horses that could still run: "Mountain Chief, Hong Feng has arrived in Lanzhou!" ”

Chen Zhaoming gritted his teeth: "Hurry up!" Seize the last bit of time! ”

Everyone began to race against time to unload the cement, dismantle the canvas, cover the boat, and plant the explosives, and before it was all right, they heard the sound of the gong on the embankment ring rapidly.

"Hurry, hurry, hurry!" Wang Junwan greeted Qian Gu Miao, who was still hurriedly inserting the fuse: "Withdraw first!" We'll talk about it later! ”

Several people hurriedly got out of the bilge, Qian Gu also put the lead spool while running, put it on the deck of the ship and threw the spool, and Wang Junwan grabbed the collar and jumped off the big boat and ran towards the embankment.

In this way, the river had risen to the bottom of the ditch, and the waves were no more than a foot from the bottom of the ditch.

Chen Zhaoming blew the whistle, and this time Lao Guo Tou saw clearly, a few ropes suspended with wooden sticks, the end of the thread sparked, and quickly burned towards several huge tin boxes buried in the ground.

This was followed by a powerful explosion that shook the ground and shook the mountain, and several explosives exploded almost at the same moment, and the embankment shook, and everyone was unstable on their feet, and a large area fell.

Everyone lay on the ground and raised their heads, and saw that the water of the Yellow River, which had been restrained by the embankment for thousands of years, seemed to have suddenly found an outlet for catharsis, and suddenly roared, pouring down along the gap with a mighty momentum!

The soft earth and stone at the gap were suddenly thrown under the embankment by the current, and a stone piece hugged by one person was thrown dozens of feet away, and when it fell again, it was already a turbid and tumbling water flow underneath.

With a pop, the boulder splashed a wave, and there was no trace of it.

The waterway of the Guzi River, which has been dry for many years, is full of water in an instant, and the embankments along the bank are constantly washed away, and the flood carries the dead grass at the bottom of the river, and the shrubs and stones on the riverside are tumbling in the torrent, floating and sinking, and roaring downstream!

The might of the river!